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Import GPX files as a Strava Route
Lots of routes built on the sites, would like to import to route builder section and not recreate them all.
Lots of routes built on the sites, would like to import to route builder section and not recreate them all.
Please see our article for instructions on how to use the Strava Labs tool to upload a GPX file as a Strava Route.
At some future time, we are interested in incorporating this feature into the Strava site. In the meantime, our apologies if you receive an error message when trying to create the Route. It is mostly likely because Strava Routes is still in beta, and there is missing street and trail data that doesn't match the imported GPX.
Yes please, this is a function I would like also.
Pleaseeee!!! I think this is a MUST!
How about the ability to convert an activity into a route?
Was pretty shocked that neither importing or converting was supported. If Routes are going to be in any way useful then surely this needs to happen? I imagine these will get added to club/race pages in the future (or I hope so...) so please add this.
Or at least comment?
Yes, definitely this feature is well needed.
I was going to ask why this isn't built in but looks like others already have, fingers crossed
just joined for this feature did not know you did not have it
will cancel subscription
Yes, I'm also surprised that this isn't handled: I want to create a route that retraes large portions of one done by someone else, and the easiest way of doing so is evidently going to be to edit a previously existing GPX file. Please add this functionality!
Looks like this should be an essential feature for the next release,surely can't be that hard to do.
Since we've just got the feature to turn activity into a route... and you could just upload a gpx as an activity and turn it into a route...
Surely it can't be too much to add this?
But then again people have been asking for lock screen integration *forever*.
This would be very useful, especially when events release their routes in GPX format.
I was going to use Strava over some of the other apps. Not having this feature - well it's turned me off. I'll come back when it's possible
Strava, what is keeping you
This would be great to have please.
This is the one thing that makes me use a competitor to Strava for route planning and following. Please add it Strava!
And yet still... nothing from Strava on this. Stunned, really.
Thanks for the feedback folks! And sorry we haven't responded to this suggestion yet.
We don't have current plans to implement this feature, but rest assured we think it's a very good idea.
In the meantime, you can still "upload" data to the Route Builder because we recently released the feature to make a Strava Activity page into a Strava Route. So, if you have a route you'd like to get into Strava, you can try uploading it as a Strava Activity first then make that Activity into a Route. Afterwards, you can delete the Strava activity if it wasn't something you completed yourself.
Keep the feedback coming!
The "work around" above doesn't work well as when you get .gpx files for an event, they generally do not contain time information, only the gps co-ordinates. You then get the error "time information missing from file" when trying to load them as an activity. I'll be using mapmyrun till Strava gets their act together!
Yes we need this feature! Run keeper has it but that is the only things Runkeeper has that Stava doesn't! Go Stava, do it!
Upload a gpx without time data... come on Strava...
I agree with Aiden. Tried the "work around" and got the "time information missing from file" error, so can't import. Whilst I think the route feature on Strava beats the Garmin offering hands down, it would still be great if we could import the GPX/KML files that event organisers provide. It can't be that hard to do, can it?
Also, it would make doing things like hiking along the National Trails much easier, as they all provide their routes in GPX data formats for download to Garmin devices.
Hello everybody, hello Strava team,
I'm a recent french user of Strava and the first thing missing is import gpx itinerary !
I'm also surprise that Strava doesn't support this functionality. I already did my gpx files on openrunner and impossible to import them on strava.
And if I can add also one more thing :
I don't know in other countries if it the same thing but :
In France, when I try to build my itinary on strava, it's nearly impossible to do :
- always strava calculate the distance during a long time even if it's a very short distance (less than 100 m !)
- strava don't know all the roads and also don't know cycle roads (so I try to do in manual, I'll see what'll happen tomorrow on the road with that sort of itinerary)
So it's begin to be too much bad points to use strava unfortunately.
I've just begin to test strava and I fell : hard to use it to build your itinerary, impossible to import an itinerary.
To conclude, I'll test an other android application in the following weeks to see if there's a different on these 2 important points (impossible to import gpx and difficult to create itinerary)
i could work with the workaround except that once a activity is converted into a route then i can't edit any of the points…. which is very frustrating…. please reconsider this feature….
Chris - we're working on the feature to edit a Route that has been converted from an Activity page. Thanks!
Hi Elle, you still have not addressed the issue of not being able to import GPX data to Strava that does not contain time information. Many trail running competitions, and probably other sports as well, supply the route information as a .gpx or .kml file but it only contains the gps coordinates. We use this information not just for the race but for training different sections of the course beforehand. It seems to me to be a major oversight not to include this functionality.
OK, alternative method is to load you .GPX files into runkeeper, put in a duration time, and then export the data. The new GPX file will have timestamps for each track point.
Hi Aiden,
It is true, Strava does not accept files for upload that lack time data. I'm not sure if this will ever get changed, but (hopefully) we'll allow folks to upload files without time data to our Route Builder.
In the meantime, the workaround you suggest should work. Also the site GPSies.com has a feature to add a fake time stream to get around this.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
You can use Adze (for Mac) to rewrite timestamps data on gpx files. I easily solved the "time information missing from file" issue like that.
Yes, GPSies does work to get you a file with fake GPX data that will contain time for Strava to accept it, but you may need to edit the date. Bonus to manually adding is it will also contain amount climbed where the manual entry does not contain that. Bit fiddly but will work.


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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has decided it would be "in the best interests of the NFL" to have the Packers host Philadelphia instead of Minnesota. As word spreads about the chance that the scheduled playoff game this weekend pitting Minnesota against Philadelphia may not sell out, because 45% of Vikings season ticket holders have not purchased their tickets yet, Goodell determined action needed to be taken.
"The Vikings have earned their playoff berth technically by winning the most games in the NFC North. But I'd be lying if I said the NFL was excited to see the Vikings make it instead of the Packers. The Packers have much better fans. In fact, the Packers sell out pre-season games, not to mention regular season games and of course, they'd sell out a playoff game before the tickets even went on sale. In any event, the NFL has decided that it would be in the best interests of the NFL to have the Packers host Philadelphia instead this weekend. We believe it would be a better game and bring more money to our pockets ultimately, which is really all we're after".
(Goodell also reportedly muttered under his breath after making this decision that not allowing Minnesota to play would spare viewers from having to see Jared Allen's unbelievably bad mullet).

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Judging by his history, Dave Matthews would make an unlikely organic farmer.
"Brad and I used to stuff bad pizza and bad beer down our throats and fix ourselves a Pepto-Bismol chaser," he told Food & Wine Magazine last October, describing his and his friend Brad McCarthy's eating habits when they were bartending. (McCarthy now runs Matthews' Blenheim Vineyards.) Things didn't get much better when Matthews got a band together and hit the road. Back then, he said, dinner meant "microwavable hamburgers at the Quik Stop."
Of course, now that the former bartender hauls in an estimated $20 million a year, things are a little different. Like being able to buy 1,260 acres near Scottsville, start an organic farm, and name it after one of his songs.
Still, the transition from Quik Stops to his own Best of What's Around Farm involved a change of heart nearly everyone can relate to.
"What I learned from Farm Aid," Matthews told Food & Wine, "was this very unhealthy way that big farms work, this mass farming, this poisoning of the land. So I started looking for good foods, whole foods."
So thanks to Farm Aid founders Willie Nelson and Friends, Matthews' good fortune is about to become good news for local veggie lovers.
Starting in April, Best of What's Around will deliver fresh organic vegetables, flowers, and herbs to people who sign up for their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. CSA is a nationwide movement that provides farm produce to people who pledge financial support– and a little physical labor– to a local farm in advance.
The Best of What's Around program costs $675 plus two hours of labor for the season– April to November (or the first killing frost). That buys a bushel basket (enough to feed a family of four for a week) of veggies, herbs, and flowers (raspberries and strawberries, too, when they're in season) every week. Pickup is available at one of several drop spots around town or at the farm.
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"One of the reasons why people don't sign up for this program a second year," says Dix, "is that they get too much food." Indeed, Dix says that What's Around will offer 50 different kinds of vegetables and herbs, including broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower in the spring; peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, and chard in the summer; and squash and pumpkins in the fall. They'll even throw in some fresh flowers!
Obviously, not everyone might know what to do with three eggplants and an armful of okra every week. Still, Dix thinks it's a good thing.
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In addition the its CSA program, Best of What's Around is opening a farm store this summer and starting an intensive eight-month internship program for young organic agriculturists. They also have several orchards growing, says Dix, but it will be a few years before they begin to produce.
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Schroders Quickview: India and Brazil's future growth reliant on reform
Schroders Quickview: India and Brazil's future growth reliant on reform
Brazilian GDP data reinforces need for reform
Brazilian GDP contracted 0.2% year on year in the third quarter, compared to a 0.9% contraction recorded in the second quarter. On a quarterly basis, GDP managed to grow 0.1%, ending the country's technical recession. The figures demonstrate the need for reforms aimed at revitalising investment.
Latest GDP figures show the contrasting performance of Brazil and India, but both economies require reforms.
A breakdown of the figures showed weakness coming through in investment, which contracted 8.5% year-on-year in the third successive quarter of declines. Meanwhile, consumer spending, previously a mainstay of growth for Brazil, contracted 0.3% quarter on quarter and barely grew in year-on-year terms, expanding only 0.1%. The main growth supports came from net exports and government spending. Reliance on the latter is a cause for concern given the need to reduce government spending.
High frequency data in the fourth quarter has been generally weak, with industrial production numbers and PMI prints pointing to continued contraction in the manufacturing sector, while retail sales are essentially treading water. The fourth quarter will likely be slightly weaker, capping a disappointing year for Brazilian growth.
In terms of the medium-term outlook, we were of the opinion that growth next year would be weak whoever won in October's elections – reforms take time and can be painful – and so the election result prompted no change to our 2015 forecast.
The longer term outlook, however, is gloomier, as we are sceptical of Dilma's commitment to reform. Nonetheless, should Dilma's cabinet propose, and be allowed to implement, credible reform plans, the growth picture for 2016 will improve. For now, corporates are still expressing reluctance to invest, waiting for clarity before they do so. Clarity can come only if reform plans are kept to despite economic pain. Consequently, if reforms are enacted and, importantly, not rolled back by the second half of 2015, investment should pick up. Today's numbers only emphasise how badly this is needed
India growth provides positive surprise
Indian GDP expanded 5.3% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2014, slower than the 5.7% expansion in the second quarter but beating City, and our, expectations. Though growth was stronger than expected, it was supported by government expenditure and private consumption. Investment and net exports were both much weaker than in the previous quarter, and this is a negative development in an economy with significant infrastructure needs and a recurrent current account problem. The reliance on government spending is also a concern given the tighter fiscal deficit targeting to come.
Higher frequency data has been reasonable in India and we expect growth to hold up in the final quarter. Presently, 2015 looks marginally stronger thanks to oil price weakness, and we expect some success on reforms to lead to greater investment, picking up momentum going into 2016. However, India still has supply-side bottlenecks (particularly in power and transport infrastructure) and a relatively poor investment environment, and recent export weakness is concerning.
The reform agenda remains the key to Indian growth hopes, and while there have been some moves forward, political obstacles remain. Prime Minister Modi has not had the free rein some expected given his strong mandate. The latest worry is that state governments are pressing for exemptions from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), a key piece of taxation reform. If too many items are excluded from coverage by this tax, it will lose its transformational value. Parliament reconvened on 24th November for its month-long winter session; its success in implementing economic reforms in this time, including the GST, will have significant implications for sentiment and prospects.
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This November, Californians will head to the polls to potentially make history as the first state to vote in a bill that would mandate labeling of genetically modified foods. California's Proposition 37 would come at no cost to consumers, but would be a major success for environmentalists and food activists. The bill would also disallow genetically modified food from being labeled as "all-natural," one of the most deceptive terms in today's food labels. Nationwide and statewide polls have shown that more than 90 percent of Americans are in favor of labeling GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and that more than 80 percent of Californians would approve the bill.
Modern genetic science has been applied to food in order to produce crops that are resistant to drought, disease, and pesticides and to increase production. The food's genes are altered and sometimes injected with a pesticide that allows the plant to fight disease on its own or with vitamins such as Vitamin A and beta carotene to enhance the food's nutrition benefits. These gene alterations have raised concern over whether or not GMOs produce allergens – potentially explaining the recent spike in food allergies – and other health concerns. Common crops subjected to genetic modification include corn, soybeans, and canola.
Because GMOs are bred to become resistant to pesticides, more pesticides and herbicides are needed, resulting in an increased amount of these chemicals that pollute the groundwater and soil and cause harm to the environment. The California campaign for Proposition 37 explains, "Because of the massive use of such products, herbicide-resistant weeds have flourished—a problem that has resulted, in turn, in the use of increasingly toxic herbicides. These toxic herbicides damage our agricultural areas, impair our drinking water, and pose health risks to farm workers and consumers. California consumers should have the choice to avoid purchasing foods production of which can lead to such environmental harm."
Genetic modification has affected organic farming as well – although regulated organic food is not allowed to contain GMOs, seeds from genetically modified crops in nearby fields can travel and find their way into organic farms, contaminating these crops.
Agricultural giants, such as corn grower Monsanto, have invested millions of dollars to fight this legislation. With little research done on GMOs, these foods remain controversial, but regardless of one's stance on genetically modified food or whether these foods are safe to eat, consumers deserve transparency and the right to know what we are putting in our bodies. If GMOs are labeled, consumers and scientists will be able to track the long term health effects of eating such foods.
"The giant pesticide and food companies are afraid of the mothers and grandmothers who want the right to know what's in our food," said Stacy Malkan of California's Right to Know initiative. "These companies will try to buy the election, but it won't work. California moms and dads will prevail over Monsanto and Dupont."
Fifty countries in Europe, South America, and Asia, as well as Australia and Mexico, already mandate labeling of GMOs. The United States lags behind these countries in terms of food safety laws, and the federal government does not require safety testing for genetically modified food, making it uncertain and unproven that GMOs are safe for human consumption.
Because California is the nation's largest producer of agriculture and the world's eighth-largest economy, mandating GMO labeling will have a big impact on the food industry – and environmental groups and food activists believe that the bill has enough public support to pass. If you are a registered voter in California, don't forget to vote on Election Day to help pass this important law!
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Huawei Technologies in the Spotlight
EvoSwitch is the preferred IT gateway to collocation services to customers from all over the world. Recently we welcomed Huawei Technologies as a new customer to our AMS1 data center in the Amsterdam region.
Huawei Technologies, with its global headquarters in Shenzhen, China, is a leading telecom solutions provider. Through continuous customer-centric innovation, Huawei has established end-to-end advantages in Telecom Network Infrastructure, Application & Software, Professional Services and Devices. With comprehensive strengths in fixed network, wireless and IP technologies, Huawei has gained a leading position in the All-IP convergence age.
Huawei's products and solutions have been deployed in over 100 countries and have served 45 of the world's top 50 telecom operators, as well as one third of the world's population. We sat down with Paul Broekhuizen, Sales Director at Huawei Technologies Europe, to find out why Huawei chose EvoSwitch, and how they leverage carrier-neutral and multi-tenant data center solutions as a building block in their own solutions portfolio.
Could you tell us something about Huawei and its product service portfolio?
"We provide independent, controllable IT infrastructure with high security and reliability, such as servers, storage devices, networks, security systems, and cloud computing, to ensure the security of policing of data sharing, service synergy and provide reliable services." says Paul Broekhuizen. "Huawei is the only vendor that provides an end-to-end cloud DC solution, covering servers (entry-level, mid-range, and high-level), storage systems, network devices, and security devices. It also includes the Huawei-developed virtualization platform and converged management of a cloud DC." Could you describe Huawei's selection process for
EvoSwitch and why Huawei decided to collocate at EvoSwitch?
Huawei has a very strict selection process for its partners with whom we work together in building solutions for our customers. EvoSwitch's strong focus on sustainability and renewable energy sources, their flexibility in providing us the space and 24×7 support we require are but some of the reasons that drew us to EvoSwitch. As we are already actively serving customers out of the AMS1 data center, we have the first proof in hand that we made the right choice.
What type of customers will you serve from EvoSwitch's data center?
"At our core, we are a hardware vendor, that builds solutions out of our own range of products. In some cases though, our customers ask of us to manage the designed solution. We rely on our partners to bring the specific parts together we do not have in-home as a service. EvoSwitch's AMS1 data center is key, because it is where we build and our partners manage these bespoke solutions for our customers."
What are Huawei's primary goals for 2014 in working with EvoSwitch?
"We're looking to expand the relationship with our current partners and move end users on request from their private environment into the EvoSwitch AMS1 data center. We're also focused on providing Disaster Recovery environments for our customers. At the same time, we are growing our relationships with European hosting providers to help them build cloud environments based on OpenStack."
What is your long-term data center strategy? "We see the following major trends in the future of the corporate data center: We see increased demand for what we refer to as Virtualized Elastic Resources, the continued move to virtualize servers and the beginnings of private cloud environments and away from SANs. We see being low-carbon and energy efficient more and more as a hard requirement for our hardware that goes into the data center. We expect that Intelligent Unified Management and Control will become a hot topic, as IT infrastructure will grow to support growing sets of data across various systems and more and more public or hybrid clouds. To close, we see that the growing need and demand for standards-compliant security will make it more difficult for Enterprise customers to maintain their data centers in-home in some cases. This will create a shift towards the neutral, multi-tenant data centers that have been built around strict certifications and standards."


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I usually geotag my pictures with Picasa + Google Earth, while using Lightroom 3.4 for everything else. While this works fine with JPEG pictures, I've discovered that apparently LR doesn't recognize geotags in NEF files (taken with a Nikon D90) tagged this way: if I examine their EXIF metadata in Picasa, geotags are there, but in Lightroom GPS field is missing.
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Higher food prices make Thanksgiving shopping more challenging for some
Last-minute shoppers were out looking for bargains the day before Thanksgiving.
Some told WISN 12 News reporter Mike Anderson they expect to spend about $100 on Thanksgiving dinner.
Lori Kazaks is planning for 15 people and said she's had to stretch every penny.
"I am a little shocked sometimes when I look at prices. Things have definitely gone up, but when they have price cutbacks on certain items, there are some deals, and you just have to be careful about what you pick," Kazaks said.
Roberta Taylor used to load her basket up and never give it a second thought. But this year, she found herself picking and choosing.
"Everything is just so expensive now. I mean, just for instance, these cookies now, I mean, they were like, they're like $4 now. Before, they were like $2.50. I remember prices, but yeah, it's a lot more expensive this year," Taylor said.
Taylor said she spread out her Thanksgiving shopping over time to help off set prices. The stuff she could freeze she bought early. Now her short list is for the cheaper trimmings.
"I have flour. I have butter. I have cranberry sauce," Taylor said.
"Turkey, stuffing, everybody brings their own thing," shopper Beth Vanegen said.
Vanengen said her family is going to share the bill for their Thanksgiving meal. They do a pot luck, and her contribution is an inexpensive dessert.
Earl Boyce, on the other hand, said it's tradition for everybody to come to his house whether they bring anything or not. He said his wife has had to plan ahead to make it work.
"If I go back years back, I remember seven loaves of bread for $1, so, no, that's not happening anywhere anymore," Boyce said.


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Peter Fulton is the frontrunner to captain the New Zealand test team if Brendon McCullum is injured.
Speculation rose about McCullum's successor in the various forms when he twinged an abdominal muscle in the final one-day international at Eden Park. There is no vice-captain named in any New Zealand squad; the team prefers to rely on a leadership or strategic group as back-up.
Ross Taylor is out of contention to deputise, despite allegedly being New Zealand Cricket's preferred candidate to lead the test side when a split captaincy was mooted. His unpalatable exit from the job remains too raw and needs further healing, so NZC decided to rely on the leadership group concept rather than broach the subject and risk re-opening the wound.
At 22, Kane Williamson is seen as a work-in-progress.
There is an unwillingness to subject him to more responsibility when maintaining his form in the pivotal No 3 batting position is the priority.
Fulton has vast experience captaining Canterbury. He took over that role from Kruger van Wyk in the 2009-10 season. Canterbury won the Plunket Shield the following season but have not won any titles since.
Fulton's form has been largely unaffected in the role and he tends to engender the respect of team-mates with his measured approach. He has a reputation for instilling confidence in his charges, particularly bowlers. Fulton formed part of the leadership group on the tour to South Africa until he returned home with a knee injury.
With Fulton now aged 34, there is a school of thought his best days as a batsman might be past him and he might be vulnerable to bounce, especially from the likes of the 1.98m Steven Finn. However, Fulton's Plunket Shield form is outstanding, having made 902 runs at 56.37 including three centuries. Now he might make the leap to tossing the coin and donning the pads first if McCullum is injured.
That is a big 'if'. The skipper currently has a test fitness record rivalling the best in the world. McCullum has not missed a test through injury (or form) since his debut in 2004. He has played 72 tests. Of current players just Mahela Jayawardene (93), Alastair Cook (85) and AB de Villiers (85) have played more straight tests. Only de Villiers' record extends from debut.
The other problem would be who to bat at No 5 if McCullum was absent. Tom Latham is the likely candidate, having been picked in the test squad as an opener and middle order cover. That theory assumes Hamish Rutherford will open in the tests with Fulton after his 90 in the first innings of the four-dayer in Queenstown.
Latham's test selection would be a gamble, considering he averaged 33.07 with a top score of 81 in the Plunket Shield this season. He made just 16 against England in the four-day warm-up but looked comfortable at No 3 in the three warm-up T20s for scores of 23, 22 and 64.


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Recently, I've been following some really interesting discussion on the "You Know Your from Lowell When" Facebook group. It's been about Wigginville, the South Lowell neighborhood that's probably better known for its local landmarks: the Six Arch bridge, Riverside School, and the Dizzy Bridge – that ancient footbridge that doubles as a teenage dare/deathtrap and runs roughly parallel to Lawrence Street on the opposite side of the Lowell Cemetery. The thing about Wigginville is that it's one of those places where, even if you grew up there, or even spent your entire life there, you may not have noticed that you were standing there, smack in the middle of it. I heard passing references to it, growing up in South Lowell, where it was almost always referred to as "Wigginsville", which, surprisingly, isn't actually the right pronunciation.
Sure, Lowell still has its neighborhoods, even today. There's Centralville (always pronounced, but rarely spelt Centerville), Back Central, Pawtucketville, Belvidere, and the Highlands. There are some smaller, older neighborhood names that have sort of clung on, over the years. Belvidere contains the neighborhood once better known as Lowell's Oakland section, which still survives at some level, in the name of the former fire station across the street from Shedd Park. There's also Ayers City, which has best survived in the sign at the end of the Lowell Connector's Exit 4. If you look closely, you'll see that the sign contains a misspelling, calling it Ayres City. Go back a century, though, and you'll find many more neighborhoods. Lowell's South Lowell neighborhood, for example, once contained the Bleachery, the Grove, Riverside Park, Swede Village, and Wigginville.
For a neighborhood name that's been largely forgotten, Wigginville sure created quite a stir in city politics when one Councilman Wilde proposed changing its name in 1908, not even two years after it had been annexed from the neighboring town of Tewksbury. Echoing what was the general feeling at the time, his argument followed that anything annexed to Lowell from a surrounding town had to be upgraded so that it met the city's standards and didn't embarrass the citizenry. Wigginville, according to Councilman Wilde, did just that. First and foremost among his concerns, there was the matter of its name. Wigginville had landed upon its name as a sort of dedication to its largest developer, William H Wiggin. Wiggin had been a well-known builder in the Lowell area, contributing his efforts to such lofty and well-respected edifices as the Savings Bank Building, the Boston & Maine depot on Central Street, and the Armory on Westford Street. And, in the nineteenth century psyche, he was a valued and solid member of society. He had been born in Epping, NH in 1823, went on to graduate from Dracut Academy, and had even had the time to trace his ancestry to the pilgrims.
And he had, in the words of his supporters, developed the "beautiful suburban village" of Wigginville. Councilman Wilde was not among his supporters. Councilman Wilde also didn't have the best sense of timing. He chose 1908 to change Wigginville's name. Yes, that was about two years after the neighborhood had become part of Lowell, but it was also just after William H Wiggin had died. Those who had grown up appreciating Wiggin's contributions to the cityscape, and may have even attended the Riverside School he had funded and helped build, felt that the neighborhood should not be stripped of his name. In fact, they said, Wigginville should retain his name, as a memorial to his good deeds. Wiggin's supporters found their champion in Richard Sykes, 'the man with the Mountain Lion's voice' from Wigginville.
Councilman Wilde had his supporters too. There wasn't even an appropriate entry into Wigginville, they reasoned. Lowell city councilmen looked at the Lawrence Street bridge spanning the Concord River as a ramshackle pathway, perilous even to foot traffic, let alone horses. Now that it was part of the city, it had to be dealt with, they claimed. And, this, of course, took the conversation back to its name, Wigginville. Who would want to enter a neighborhood named Wigginville? they asked.
A 1908 Lowell Sun article purported to ask a resident of Wigginville, unnamed, what he thought of his neighborhood's name. He claimed that he thought the name should be changed, so that electric car riders would no longer be embarrassed to board cars bound for "Wigginville" – if riders could even heard the conductor's destination announcements over the snickers. The name should be changed, this unnamed man (or woman) on the street claimed. He went on to say that he had found that this opinion was shared by a three-to-one margin among his fellow Wigginvillians. Wigginvillians were so ashamed of the Wigginville name that they had been seen clandestinely boarding electric cars to the nearby Bleachery station, just to escape the snickers meant for the Wigginville car. And, then there were the comedians too, the man on the street continued. They were 'always' cracking jokes at the cost of the poor Wigginvillians.
The problem of what Lowell city residents should call these new neighborhoods was a cause of confusion too. The deeds for these newly annexed lands carried all sorts of arbitrary, vaguely defined and unfamiliar neighborhood names, based on the many developers who had built up the area in the last couple of decades. A quick review of the deeds had turned up not just references to the unfortunately named Wigginville, but also to places called Lee Village, Gilman Hill, and Riverside Park. It just made sense to unite the rural territory under one suitable, nicely sounding name, supporters of the name change claimed.
So, what should the name of this section be? Councilman Wilde proposed changing the name of Wigginville to Concord Heights, after the name of the nearby Concord River. This name would assuage the bruised egos of Wigginvillians, and even begin to rehabilitate this poor no-man's-land into a proper city neighborhood. Lowell would, finally, be able to hold its head high with Concord Heights, its newest neighborhood. It was hoped, he said, that the name change would encourage the Boston & Maine to improve its station stop in Wigginville (near the present-day park off Commonwealth Avenue) and help the Primitive Methodist Church being constructed on Lawrence Street to finish its construction without having to wonder how to name itself around the unfortunate Wigginville neighborhood.
Councilman Wilde seemed to have all of his supporters in lock-step. All that was left to do was put the Wigginville renaming proposal in front of the Board of Aldermen. And he did, in July 1908. And, on that night, Richard Sykes, the Mountain Lion's Voice from Wigginville, came, ready to argue his neighborhood's stance that the name not be changed. He had prepared a speech in defense of a memorial to the neighborhood's benefactor, William H Wiggin. Local press came too, ready for the show. They quipped amongst themselves that he would present his argument there in the chamber, and would have his "janitors around with baskets picking up his dropped h's." Wilde started by presenting a petition, said to be signed by some 100 Wigginvillians, to change their village's name to Concord Heights.
The aldermen listened, briefly. Wigginville barely registered in their minds. The neighborhood, annexed less than two years before, didn't even have defined borders. Chairman Wilder spoke first. He wondered why all the fuss was even worth their time. The name will die out, Wilder told Wilde, since it came from Tewksbury, and Wigginville was clearly now a part of Lowell. His fellow aldermen listened, and joked that perhaps Wigginville should be renamed Wildeville. Another alderman claimed that Wild Wigginville might be even more appropriate.
Richard Sykes prepared to speak. There was no need to fear Sykes, or his speech though. When the motion to change the name was presented, Aldermen Brennan and Gray disposed of it almost immediately, telling Wilde, whose smile must have been fading by then, that the Council had no role in naming, or re-naming Wigginville, since the name had never actually been assigned. The fact was, they said, that the residents themselves had just decided that that was how they wanted to name their neighborhood, and the Council was just fine with that. They then moved the topic of discussion to something that the "Council had something to do with". They appropriated funds to fix that Concord River bridge so badly in need of repairs.
And the proposal to change the village's name from Wigginville to Concord Heights seems to have died right there, on the chamber floor, because, as they moved on to the matter of that Wigginville bridge, not one voice was raised in protest, because the people of Wigginville were just fine with their neighborhood's name, and didn't want someone with very little connection to Wigginville renaming their community. In the weeks following the decision, or non-decision at it may be, the Wigginvillians took the momentum from their victory and formed the Wigginville Improvement Club, and elected Richard Sykes as its president. The objective of the club? To improve the village's streets, and to perpetuate the proud, newly vindicated name of Wigginville.


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Office Online, specifically Word Online, has a new feature which is rolling out now, which features tight integration with Bing. This new feature, announced on December 10, is called Insights for Office.
If you remember "Research" pane in earlier versions of Office, this may be familiar. Of course, Insights for Office is supposedly much more powerful because it is very contextual, and utilizes Bing to provide the best possible way to surface web content right inside Word.
The way it works is this: as you write something in Word Online, you can start searching for a word or phrase within the text (by right-clicking) and Bing's various results are shown in a nice panel. You can see results from Bing Snapshot, Wikipedia, Bing Image Search, Oxford Dictionary, and the whole web. You can avoid switching windows in order to run the searches in a separate tab/window of the browser and instead, see the content right beside your text, thereby reducing workflow disruption.
Insights for Office will also be triggered through the TellMe search box since that is the other obvious place where someone may enter content-related queries.
The Bing Blog goes on to explain more about how this works:
Bing indexes and stores entity data from around the web representing real world people, places and things. Insights for Office utilizes Bing's ability to index the world's knowledge and our machine learned relevance models to semantically understand the most important content in a user's document and then return the most relevant results. This capability is derived largely from patterns of text analysis developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research. The results deliver the most relevant web links, images, etc. for a given request in the form of entity cards – a quick overview of the most important attributes (description, date of birth, etc.) about a real world person, place or thing. In many cases, the entity card may provide enough information for the user's query intent to be fulfilled without requiring any additional exploration.
This is yet another integration of Bing into a Microsoft product, further confirming that Bing cannot be spun off from Microsoft, if that thought is still in some investors' minds. The tight coupling of Bing into a variety of other Microsoft products like Sway, Xbox, Cortana personal digital assistant, etc. solidify Microsoft's positioning of Bing as a platform rather than a search engine.


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OTTAWA — While Canada's frontline military force has emerged untouched in this year's federal budget and reservists were provided some relief, thousands of Defence Department civilians and contractors could be on the chopping block.
At the same time, the country's diplomatic footprint is set to shrink as the government will close embassies and other missions and end Canadian participation in a number of international organizations, while millions in foreign aid will be slashed.
As expected, National Defence is facing the largest cuts of all departments in terms of sheer numbers, at more than $1.1 billion by 2014-15. This is over and above the $1.1 billion the government already had planned to slash from the department's $21-billion budget this coming fiscal year.
Few details were provided, but by maintaining the current level of 68,000 regular force members and 27,000 reservists, the government appears to have taken retired general Andrew Leslie's advice to maintain the frontline force and instead cut back on the $2.7 billion spent on contractors, consultants and private-service providers.
The Defence Department also may look to sell or otherwise dispose of some of the property it currently holds in different parts of the country and change the way it purchases equipment.
On that front, the government is taking $3.54 billion it was planning to spend over the next seven years on military vehicles and other items and saving it for a future date. This largely reflects delays in a number of projects.
Meanwhile, the government is planning to help offset hiring and training costs incurred by companies that employ reservists who subsequently are deployed on military operations.
"Canada's reservists make extraordinary sacrifices to keep our country safe," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in his budget speech to the Commons. "But potential long absences and added costs mean some employers will not hire them. These brave Canadians should not be disadvantaged."
Canada's Foreign Affairs Department is facing $169.8 million in cuts by 2014-15, which represents nearly seven per cent of its planned $2.6-billion budget for this fiscal year, which already was slated to be slashed by $32 million from last year.
Again, details were sparse, but the government did say it is hoping to raise $80 million by selling a number of Canadian diplomatic residences and an official acknowledged some embassies or consulates would be closed as well.
The government official said the idea is to streamline Canada's diplomatic presence and focus on areas of national importance, though he did not identify which countries would be affected.
At the same time, Canadian diplomats who typically are deployed on three-year postings will spend longer periods abroad, not only to save money, but in the hopes they will develop better contacts.
However, they will have fewer resources. The government plans to reduce the number of vehicles available to Canadian diplomats abroad and to cut back on the amount of money available for travelling and wining and dining foreign counterparts.
Some of these measures already have been tried — with mixed success.
When the government sold Canada's prized Strathmore ambassadorial residence outside Dublin in 2008, it received nearly $8 million less than the property was worth. Closing diplomatic missions also typically draws the ire of host countries.
In addition, internal Foreign Affairs documents have shown that Canadian diplomats were unable to do their work effectively when their travel and hospitality budgets were cut in half two years ago.
Foreign aid will be reduced by $377 million by 2014-15, which represents about 7.5 per cent of the approximately $5-billion international assistance envelope.
The Canadian International Development Agency will bear the brunt of those reductions, which had been anticipated after the government capped aid spending two years ago. Again, further details were not provided, but Canada already has been among the lowest international aid donors as a percentage of gross national income, and the move inevitably will prompt outrage from aid groups and some recipient countries.
Veterans, meanwhile, appeared to be saved any drastic cuts, with $66.7 million taken from its $3.5 billion budget. The biggest change will be to the way housekeeping and maintenance services are provided to the 96,000 veterans, primary caregivers and survivors enrolled in the Veterans Independence Program.
Pat Varga, head of the Royal Canadian Legion, said any changes that make it easier for veterans and their families to access services and assistance are welcome, but the fact the government is making cuts when many veterans are struggling is unacceptable.
"We've been seeing consistently an increase in the number of injured veterans coming forward," she said. "I think our veterans deserve the very best from the government, and we see a decrease here."


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Kirsty in the UK here, holding the fort while Lauren is off celebrating Thanksgiving. Here are my favourite links of the week. Enjoy, and a Happy Thanksgiving to our American readers.
For those of us less familiar with Thanksgiving, here are two quizzes (an easy one and a difficult one) about the celebration. [BBC News]
"What does it say about modern culture when so many of our pop icons are famous primarily for being someone's son or daughter?" asks Laurie Penny. [New Statesman]
Charlie Brooker on distracting ourselves from the economy. [The Guardian]
I heart Garfield Minus Garfield. [Garfield Minus Garfield]
A BBC journalist finds out how easy it is to hack a smartphone. [dot.Rory]
A selection of photos found in second-hand books. [The Age of Uncertainty]
Cat vs. Alligator. [Yahoo News]
Cliff Richard: hunk? [Daily Telegraph]
Student demos in the age of Twitter. [The Guardian]
Things I wish my phone did. [gapingvoid]
London mapped on gloves. [Londonist]


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|Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)
Part Number E17122-05
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The QUAL function lets you explicitly specify a qualified data reference (QDR). Use QUAL in cases where the syntax of a QDR is ambiguous and could either be misinterpreted by Oracle OLAP or cause a syntax error.
QDRs provide a mechanism for limiting one or more dimensions of an expression to a single value. QDRs are useful when you want to temporarily reference a value that is not in the current status.
Return Value
The value that is returned has the same data type as the expression being qualified.
QUAL(expression, dimname1 dimexp1 [, dimnameN dimexpN])
The expression being qualified. Use QUAL to qualify complex expressions that contain computation, function calls, or ampersand substitution. You can also use QUAL when the expression is a simple variable name. However, QUAL is not required for simple expressions, and you can use the following standard QDR syntax.
expression(dimname1 dimexp1 [, dimname2 dimexp2 ...])
The dimension to be limited. You can specify one or more of the dimensions of the expression. Each dimension must be paired with a dimexp. You can specify a dimension surrogate instead of the dimension.
An expression that represents the value to which the dimension should be limited. The expression can be a value of the dimension, a text expression whose result is a value of the dimension, a numeric expression whose result is the logical position of a value of the dimension, or a relation of the dimension.
When the dimension being limited is a conjoint dimension, then dimexp must be enclosed in angle brackets and must include a value for each of its base dimensions.
When the dimension being limited is a concat dimension, then dimname and dimexp can be one combination listed in Table 8-10, "Valid dimname and dimexp Combinations for Concat Dimensions".
Table 8-10 Valid dimname and dimexp Combinations for Concat Dimensions
The name of the concat dimension
A value of the concat dimension
The name of the concat dimension
The name of a base dimension
The name of a base dimension of the concat dimension
A value of the base dimension
The name of a base dimension of the concat dimension
The name of the concat dimension
Example 8-62 Using QUAL with MAX
The following example first shows how you might view your data by limiting its dimensions, and then how you might view it by using QUAL.
Assume that you issue the following OLAP DML statements to limit the view of the Cogs line data in the Sporting division to January 1996 through June 1996, and, then, report by month on the maximum value of actual costs or budgeted costs or MAX(actual,budget), actual costs, and budgeted costs for each month.
LIMIT month TO 'Jan96' TO 'Jun96' LIMIT line TO 'Cogs' LIMIT division TO 'Sporting' REPORT DOWN month W 11 MAX(actual,budget) W 11 actual W 11 budget
The preceding statements produce the following report.
DIVISION: SPORTING ---------------LINE---------------- ---------------COGS---------------- MAX(ACTUAL, MONTH BUDGET) ACTUAL BUDGET -------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Jan96 287,557.87 287,557.87 279,773.01 Feb96 323,981.56 315,298.82 323,981.56 Mar96 326,184.87 326,184.87 302,177.88 Apr96 394,544.27 394,544.27 386,100.82 May96 449,862.25 449,862.25 433,997.89 Jun96 457,347.55 457,347.55 448,042.45
Now consider how you might view the same figures for
MAX(actual,budget) without changing the status of
line or
ALLSTAT LIMIT month TO 'Jan96' TO 'Jun96' REPORT HEADING 'For Cogs in Sporting Division' DOWN month - W 11 HEADING 'MAX(actual,budget)'- QUAL(MAX(actual,budget), line 'Cogs', division 'Sporting') For Cogs in Sporting MAX(actual, Division budget) -------------- ----------- Jan96 287,557.87 Feb96 323,981.56 Mar96 326,184.87 Apr96 394,544.27 May96 449,862.25 Jun96 457,347.55
When you attempt to produce the same report with standard QDR syntax, Oracle OLAP signals an error.
REPORT HEADING 'For Cogs in Sporting Division' DOWN month - W 11 HEADING 'MAX(actual,budget)'- MAX(actual,budget) (line cogs, division sporting)
The following error message is produced.
ERROR: A right parenthesis or an operator is expected after LINE.
Example 8-63 Using QUAL with a Concat Dimension
The following example shows two ways of limiting the values of a concat dimension in a QUAL function. The
reg.dist.ccdim concat dimension has
region and
district as its base dimensions. The
rdsales variable is dimensioned by
product, and
LIMIT month TO 'Jan96' TO 'Jun96' LIMIT product TO 'Tents' 'Canoes' " Limit the concat by specifying one of its component dimensions REPORT W 30 QUAL(rdsales * 2, month 'Feb96', district 'Boston')
These statements produce the following report.
QUAL(RDSALES * 2, MONTH PRODUCT 'Feb96', DISTRICT 'Boston') -------------- ------------------------------ Tents 69,283.18 Canoes 164,475.36 " Limit the concat by specifying one of its values REPORT W 30 QUAL(rdsales * 2, month 'Mar96', reg.dist.ccdim '<district: Boston>') QUAL(RDSALES * 2, MONTH 'Mar96', REG.DIST.CCDIM PRODUCT '<district: Boston>') -------------- ------------------------------ TENTS 91,484.42 CANOES 195,244.56


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An AUTO STARTER motor is an electric motor that turns over or "cranks" the engine to start it. It consists of a powerful DC (Direct Current) electric motor and the Auto Starter motor solenoid that is attached to the motor (see the picture). In most cars, an Auto Starter Motor is attached to the transmission
The auto starter motor is powered by the car battery. To turn over the engine the auto starter motor requires a very high electric current, which means the battery has to have sufficient power. If the battery is discharged, the lights in a car might come on, but it won't be enough power (current) to turn over the starter motor.
What are the symptoms of a bad auto starter motor: With the fully charged battery, when starting a car, nothing happens or there is a single click, but the auto starter motor doesn't run, even though there is a 12-Volt power at the auto starter control terminal.
Another symptom is when the auto starter motor runs, but fails to turn over the engine. Often, this might cause a loud screeching noise when starting the car. Of course, this could also be caused by damaged teeth on the ring gear of the flex plate or flywheel.
How Does an Auto Starter Motor Work?
When you turn the key in your car`s ignition, the engine turns over and then cranks. However, getting it to crank is actually much more involved than you might think. It requires a flow of air into the engine, which can only be achieved by creating suction (the engine does this when it turns over). If your engine isn`t turning, there`s no air. No air means that fuel can`t combust. The starter motor is responsible for turning the engine over during ignition and allowing everything else to happen.
How your Auto starter motor works?
Your auto starter motor is really an electric motor. It engages when you turn the ignition to [run" and turns the engine over allowing it to suck in air. On the engine, a flexplate or flywheel, with a ring gear around the edge, is attached to the end of the crankshaft. On the auto starter motor, there`s a gear designed to fit into the grooves of the ring gear (the auto starter motor gear is called a pinion gear).
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As the engine turns over, the auto starter disengages, and the electromagnet stops. The rod retracts into the starter once more, taking the pinion gear out of contact with the flywheel and preventing damage. If the pinion gear remained in contact with the flywheel, it`s possible that the engine would spin the auto starter too fast, causing damage to it.
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Normally I wouldn't be pro-Cardinals, especially after they eliminated the Mets in 2006, but as long as it's not the Yankees It doesn't really matter to me which team wins. I don't hate the Yankees because they win, I hate the attitude of many of the fans and the treatment they get in the media. That's what makes me root against them. The Cardinals could be considered similar, but I have no contact with their fans and being in a different city keeps me separated from most of the Yankees writer counterparts that you can't help but hear about when you live in the NYC area. What does matter to me is Carlos Beltran.
Carlos Beltran may be a Hall of Famer alreadydepending on who you ask, but for those that don't think he is, a World Series ring and further postseason domination would strengthen his case. He's played more games with the Mets than anyone else, the next closest being his Royals origins. This suggests that if he were to get inducted down the road, he'd go in as a Met. That means I'm invested in Beltran collecting the criteria required to strengthen his case, and if that means rooting for the Cardinals this postseason, so be it.
Carlos Beltran was one of the best Mets ever, and it was a joy to watch him during his tenure here. He's still a great player, and I'm rooting for him to continue the postseason dominance he's shown in his previous two trips there.


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He brought it on himself, ultimately. This is not to say that he deserved it, precisely. He was proud, perhaps arrogant, and entirely too willing to let the whole world be damned as long as he saw no danger to Gilneas in the damning. But he was not malicious. He did not wish ill on anyone so much as he only wished weal upon those people he saw as his, and he saw his duty to those within his borders first, last and always. If he did not see clearly enough how the situation outside those borders would affect the people of Gilneas, it cannot be said that his failing was an absence of love for his people.
Genn Greymane, King of Gilneas, never failed his people by an absence of care or dedication. Like many who love something totally and completely, Genn's love for Gilneas was so strong that there was nothing he would not countenance in its defense. And sadly, it may well have been that willingness to do anything for her and anything to protect her, and the desire always to think of her first, last, and always, that doomed her. Even as his people have been forced to flee their kingdom, driven out by invaders who come to defile and steal a land that was never theirs, Greymane remains devoted to his land and his people.


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i found this post :http://www.listoutdoor.com/10-best-p...-buyers-guide/ that about Portable Gas Grill
There are a lot of fantastic recipes you can find on the web or in cookbooks if you need some inspiration for your camp kitchen but I've found the best ones come from forums like this. What's your favorite backpacking recipe?
i found this post :http://www.listoutdoor.com/10-best-p...-buyers-guide/ that about Portable Gas Grill
A great snack on the trail that I have put together is to make some "peanut butter balls". Basically just toast some rolled oats, take a spoonful of peanutbutter and roll it in the oats, and then freeze them. I have also added chocolate chips, nuts, and/or raisins to the peanutbutter before rolling it in oats. The only issue is if its quite hot out, they will get a bit melty after the first day.
One of my favorite car camping (maybe you could backpack it if you got creative) recipes would be Hobo stew. Crushed tomatoes, beef broth, onions, peppers, garlic, ground beef, and egg noodles. Ground beef browned, then the vegies thrown in and browned, followed by the liquids and simmered for a good bit to mix the flavors. Great hearty meal on a cool night and super easy to make with any fire or stove.
Second favorite is tinfoil surprise (goes by many other names). Basically take the same ingredients from hobo stew minus the liquid and pasta, add potatoes, wrap in tin foil, and throw it in a fire. This one definitely requires a sizeable fire since you want to be cooking on nice coals to heat it evenly.
Although not exactly a recipe as such, my favourite snail track has got to be Indian style 'bhuja mix'. Mixed with a few handfuls of dried fruits and some extra nuts to bulk it out, it's a winner every time.
Not a recipe but I always bring Peanut butter Clif bars and beef jerky.
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News & Notes: Game 138 (Final home game)
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TODAY'S GAME: This afternoon, the Buffalo Bisons take on the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in the second game of a two-game series at Coca-Cola Field (1:05 p.m.). It's the final regular season home game for the Herd this year, as the team will conclude its schedule with five games in four days in Lehigh Valley. The Bisons are 1-2 on the homestand, having split a two-game series with the Rochester Red Wings earlier this week.
LAST HOME GAME: The Bisons conclude the home portion of their 2009 schedule today. The Bisons are just 28-43 at Coca-Cola Field this season, their worst record in the 23-year history of the park. It's only the fifth time in 23 seasons the Herd will have a losing record at home. However, the Bisons are 13-11 in front of the hometown fans since the All-Star Break.
vs. THE YANKEES: The Bisons are 5-10 against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this season and just 1-6 against the Yankees at Coca-Cola Field. Dating back to last season, the Herd is 6-16 in the last 22 games against the Yanks. Buffalo still holds the 96-94 edge in the franchise history, but Scranton/Wilkes-Barre has now won three season series in the last four years against Buffalo.
FELICIANO MVP: The Bisons handed out their end of the season awards last night with OF Jesus Feliciano earning Most Valuable Player honors. Feliciano has hit an even .300 this season and leads the club in virtually every offensive category. Now with New York, RHP Nelson Figueroa earned the Most Valuable Pitcher award while RHP Kyle Snyder was the Bisons Comeback Player of the Year. RHP Tim McNab became the first Buffalo player in 6 seasons to win multiple awards (Most Inspirational Player, Community Service Award).
REY TO BE: INF Argenis Reyes has seven multi-hit performances over his last 10 games as his average has jumped to .292 on the season. Since August 24, Reyes has averaged .383 (18-47) with eight runs, four doubles a triple and five RBI. Reyes has now hit .314 in 52 home games, which is why he was given the Jimmy Griffin "Hometown Hero" Award by the team last night.
BISONS BITS: OF Jason Dubois had the team's fourth multi-homer game of the season last night. He had three two-homer games with the club in 2006…OF Josh Petersen's home run last night was his first ever in Triple-A


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FORT WHITE, Fla. – Two teens were arrested Thursday in connection with a home burglary in which several firearms and computer equipment were stolen.
Deputies said 18-year-old John Burke and 16-year-old Shawn Pearson broke into a Fort White home on Cumberland Street on Tuesday and stole the items.
On Thursday, Columbia County Sheriff's Office school resource deputies said they obtained information that a Fort White High School student may have been involved in the burglary.
Through their joint investigation, school resource deputies and detectives were able to find the stolen property at a home on Nantucket Street in Ft. White. The stolen firearms and the majority of the computer equipment were recovered for the victim.
Detectives arrested the two teens and transported them to the Columbia County Detention Facility on charges of burglary while armed and grand theft.


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OrthodoxWiki talk:Logo Submissions
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Dear Friends,
I'd like to thank everyone once again for their submissions. I'm grateful for all the time and effort people put into this. I'm also encouraged by seeing everyone's enthusiam for OrthodoxWiki. I wish I could award everyone a prize!
It's nice to see something of a consensus emerging with regard to HappyGrevling's "SealLogo1." I concur with this judgment. I think it looks dignified and professional, while capturing the Orthodox character and international scope of OrthodoxWiki. It's challenging to produce not only something that is of professional qulity, but also something which really captures the mission.
My only hesitation is that I'd love to see it brightened up a bit, especially the greenish band behind the letters. We could definitely work with it as is, though. According to Joe's suggestion, I'd also like to ask if H.G. would be willing to donate the black and white version for use on letterhead.
I'd like to give runner-up recognition to a number of others too:
- I'd like to ask User:Baker if he would be willing to donate his logos for possible use as a decoration for future printed publications.
- I'd like to ask User:Rublevpupil if he would be willing to donate his logos, especially #2 for use as a promotional link button.
- I would like to suggest that User:Raphael make his first logo available to the fledgling CopticWiki if they are interested.
- I'd also like to ask "a friend of Magda" if he'd be willing to donate "DEOWlogo2.png" as a possible link button as well.
Of course, if anyone else would like to formally donate their logos to OrthodoxWiki, we'd love to be keep them on hand for any future use. We don't want OWiki's visual identity to become too dispersed, but who knows what will come up?
Thanks again to everybody! Yours in Christ, Fr. John 14:19, November 16, 2005 (CST)
P.S. Inspired by Joe's four-fold description of OrthodoxWiki, I've added a couple bullet points to OrthodoxWiki:About.
Any matching OrthodoxWiki Favicon?
This is now fully supported in Internet Explorer 7 (not just when you bookmark a page, but also in the tabs and address bar).
Favicons must be valid ico files, or images which can later be converted into ico files, and have a size of 16x16 [1].
--Arbible 16:05, November 16, 2005 (CST)


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Shared Topic: What I Will be Doing…
From Twisted Nether comes this weeks topic of the week, all about your first few days in WoLK:
Many folks (including myself) already have an idea in our heads about what we will be doing in the first day or three after Wrath hits. I thought it might be interesting to have folks put it down "on paper" as it were. That way we could reference back to it when writing the inevitable "my first day/ weekend/ week" in Northrend posts.
Might be interesting to see how close or far off we really ended up being. Kind of like a time capsule of expectations we could go back and poke through later. Not to mention it will end up covering ideas for 3 or more posts: what I think now, what really happened, and comparing the two.
I have a quicky.
If the release is after November 13th:
I will be sulking!
Why? Because I am not going to buy the expansion then get on a plane and leave my PC for 2 months.
Gnomer and Out!


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Rooney finally put an end to speculation regarding his future on Friday night when he signed a new contract that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2019.
Rooney is held in high regard by the United fans, but he still has a way to go to merit a place among the top echelon of club icons like Best, Charlton and Denis Law.
But with the prospect of another five-and-a-half years at the club, Rooney has a good opportunity to enhance his standing among the Old Trafford faithful.
"Wayne is a great but he's got a real chance to improve and be a legend," said United boss Moyes.
One obvious way Rooney can write his name into United's history is by beating Charlton's record of 249 goals for the club.
Rooney currently stands on 208 goals, but he knows he now has a good opportunity to become the most prolific striker in United's history.
"It's a great opportunity to try to break those kinds of records," Rooney told MUTV.
"I'm not too far away even though I've still got a few goals to go, but I'm confident I can reach it
Hopefully it will happen and if it does it will be a really proud moment."
A more immediate goal for Rooney is helping United qualify for the Champions League.
The Red Devils sit 11 points off the top four ahead of Saturday's trip to Crystal Palace.
Rooney could have left for guaranteed Champions League football this summer, but he wanted to stay because he is sure Moyes will eventually bring the glory days back to Old Trafford.
"I know the direction that this club is going in, and if we don't make it this season then we will come back stronger and claim a Champions League spot next season," Rooney said on his official website.
"The future is bright for Manchester United.
"This is still one of the world's leading clubs
We have seen this with the signing of Juan Mata in January.
"People have been saying that we may have trouble attracting the world's best players but I think the fact Mata came here shows this isn't true.
"This is a new era for the club, we have a new management team and a great new manager in David Moyes, there has to be some time for change.
"We have some great players here and despite our recent form everyone has stuck together and the team spirit is still good
We will continue to work hard and get Manchester United to the top where it belongs."
Moyes admitted it was "possible" Rooney could replace the departing Nemnaja Vidic as captain at the end of the season.
The club confirmed on Friday that Rooney has agreed to become an ambassador for the club when he retires.
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